NEW BOOK! 

AVAILABLE FROM BEACON PRESS, BOOKSHOP.org & wherever books are sold.

“Drawn from her experiences of being born in Philadelphia, into a Black family and a Black culture transported from the American South by the Great Migration, M. Nzadi Keita’s poetry sparks a profoundly hybrid gaze of the visual and the sensory.”

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Upcoming Events

-5/16, Philadelphia, PA, 7-8:30 p.m. : Big Blue Marble Books, Reading & Conversation w/Pheralyn Dove, poet & photographer. Here

-5/19, Brooklyn, NY, 12:30-4:30 p.m. : Women Writers in Bloom Salon Reading, Q & A, & Free Workshop. For details, join the Bloom Facebook page or follow the Instagram page @womenwritebloom

“One current poet, M. Nzadi Keita, has tried through literary imagination to give Anna a voice… Such poetry is not a historical source for Anna’s interior world. But it does provide us a language by which we can gaze into it.” David W. Blight author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

“ You caught sight of them across Lincoln Drive

in the back of a Caddy. Passing by”

Letters to Mt. Airy, West Side

Ideas, Invites, Leaps, Landings, & Collaborations

You have winnowed this speech down to three or four sentences, starting with your double-standard buster: Being the only woman in the house does not mean you were put on the Earth to feed them. With plain words you lasso the moment, leveled and calm: everybody at this table eats, so everybody should cook.